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Jetpack Compose Accompanist TwoPane

September 22, 2022 Sep 22, 2022 09/22/22

Kristen Halper

Hello Compose developers! This week, we’d like to talk about the TwoPane layout from Google’s Accompanist Adaptive library! Not to be confused with our own Microsoft Compose SDK TwoPaneLayout component, TwoPane from Accompanist is a fold-aware UI component that works great for cases when you always want to show two pieces...

droidcon Berlin and Surface Duo video collection

August 18, 2022 Aug 18, 2022 08/18/22

Cesar Valiente

Hello Android developers! This week we were inspired by a forum question about interesting Surface Duo media content and provide a variety of different video and audio resources where you can learn more about Surface Duo, foldable devices, and dual-screen Android app development! If you want to chat in person, we’ll also be at ...

Test Kit Annotations update

August 11, 2022 Aug 11, 2022 08/11/22

Andrei Cirja

Hello Android developers! We are excited to announce an update for the foldable Test Kit library. Test Kit provides utility methods and classes that help you write instrumented tests for large screen and foldable devices. This update adds annotations which are useful for creating tests for one posture at a time. Now, instead of ...

Making a gamepad for my Flutter game

August 4, 2022 Aug 4, 2022 08/4/22

Andrei Diaconu

Did you know that building games in Flutter is just as easy as building apps? There is even a game engine built on top of it called Flame. Today we are first going to explore building a simple game with Flame and then enhance the game for dual-screen and foldable devices. This space themed game will use an on-screen gamepad controller as ...

droidcon San Francisco recap

July 21, 2022 Jul 21, 2022 07/21/22

Joy Liu

Hello Android developers, Earlier this year the Surface Duo team attended our first in-person conference for the year at droidcon in San Francisco! It was great to meet Android developers from all over the world, demonstrate the features of Surface Duo, and chat about building apps for foldable and large screen devices. We’...

Source Editor & Diary samples for Jetpack Compose

July 14, 2022 Jul 14, 2022 07/14/22

Unmesh Padhye

Hello Jetpack Compose developers! We have two exciting new Jetpack Compose samples for Surface Duo to share with you. The first one, called Source Editor, was previously published, but we migrated it to take advantage of Jetpack Compose. The second one is a Diary application that demonstrates using Android Views components with ...

Video+Chat and Calculator samples for Jetpack Compose

June 30, 2022 Jun 30, 2022 06/30/22

Levi Ortega

Hello Jetpack Compose developers! Today we will be discussing the introduction of two new Jetpack Compose samples for Surface Duo. The first one is a video-streaming-chat-like app, and the second is a calculator app. We will also be going over some of the dos and don'ts when creating these types of apps, as well as dive into...

Jetpack Compose TwoPaneLayout update

June 23, 2022 Jun 23, 2022 06/23/22

Joy Liu, Kristen Halper

Hello Jetpack Compose developers! This week, we’re excited to announce some big updates to TwoPaneLayout, our Jetpack Compose component for foldables and large screens. We’ve just added a new TwoPaneLayout constructor with highly customizable navigation support, and the TwoPaneScope interface has been upgraded to provide ...

Flutter foldable support is now stable

May 19, 2022 May 19, 2022 05/19/22

Andrei Diaconu

Hello! Flutter 3 was announced last week, and we have good news to share with you. The foldable support that we contributed to Flutter is now released in the latest stable branch. Let us dive into what this means for you. We will first go over the new API that you can use and then review what else Flutter now does for you out of the box...

Google I/O 2022 recap

May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022 05/13/22

Guy Merin

Hello Android developers, Another Google I/O has flown by, and we were excited to see sessions on foldable user experience design as well as developer-focused talks for updating existing apps to be more responsive and using Jetpack Compose. Here are our favorite sessions and announcements from the past few days: Flutter 3 announced...

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